Fiji’s agricultural sector, and within it, the sugar industry, has been the driving force behind the country’s development. The sugar industry, however, is facing a number of challenges of which production efficiency is one of them. This paper examines farm productivity, efficiency and profitability in the industry. It suggests that without improving farm level efficiency and productivity the i...

The biofloc system is a wastewater treatment technology and used for fish farming by creating the artificial environment. Biofloc Technology (BFT) can enhance water quality in aquaculture that introduces natural nutrient recycling characteristics with induction of appropriate Carbon/Nitrogen (C/N) ratio. This study aimed to estimate effect BFT implementation on production performance common car...

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Percentage error (relative to the observed value) is often felt to be more meaningful than the absolute error in isolation. The mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) is widely used in forecasting as a basis of comparison, and regression models can be fitted which minimize this criterion. Unfortunately, no formula exists for the coefficients, and models for a given data set may not be unique. We...

seeds of nine sugar beet lines: five drought tolerant, two susceptible, and two medium tolerant were washed, sterilised, dried, and sown in water agar medium for germination test. seedling growth characters such as cotyledon fresh weight (cfw), cotyledon dry weight (cdw), root fresh weight (rfw), root dry weight (rdw), and root length (rl) were determined after the end of 28 days period of expe...

plant analysis is successfully used in monitoring nutritional status, recommending fertilizer rates and types, and maximizing fertilizer efficiency in sugar beet. diagnosis and recommendation integrated system (dris) is a comprehensive approach which does not have limitations of the critical value approach (cva) and sufficiency range approach (sra). over- dose application of fertilizer increase...

Coastal Bermuda grass (CBG) has been shown to have potential as a biomass feedstock for sugar production. In this study, the effectiveness of ozone pretreatment for CBG to improve the sugar recovery via enzyme hydrolysis was investigated. Raw CBG and autohydrolysistreated CBG were pretreated with ozone at ozone consumption of 1.8 to 26.4 % (w/w) at room temperature. Lignin degradation and hemic...

OBJECTIVES Using a large natural experiment among 39 employers, we examined the effect of adding financial incentives to workplace wellness programs. STUDY DESIGN The 39 study employers used the same national insurer to administer their wellness programs, allowing us to observe preventive and health-promoting behaviors before and after financial incentives were implemented. Fifteen treatment ...

Sugar beet pulp (SBP) is a by-product of the sugar industry in which dietary fiber content ranges from 73% to 80%. Compared cereal fibers mainly used biscuit production, are gluten free and have perfect ratio 2/3 insoluble fiber. In this work, was extruded with corn grits (ratios extrudates were 85:15, 70:30, 55:45), obtained (SBPEs) for improving nutritional quality cookies. The wheat flour co...